The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-11-09

prison, and after they have suffered and
worked out the time, then they are al
| lowed to go free. And so IL Is with all OF
usi GOD passed on us the sentences:
By the sweat Of thy brow shalt thou eat bread.
we must endure eur time OF drudgery,
and then, after awhile, we will be allowed
| to go into comparative liberty. We must
be willing TO endure the sentence We
all know what drudgery Is connected
with the beginning Of any trade or pro-
fession, but this does not continue all our
| lives, IL it be the students, or the mer-
chants, OF the mechanics life.
| know you. have at the beginning many
hard time, but after awhile these things
will become easy. You will have your
own master. Gods sentence will be sat
isfied. You viii be discharged from
prison. Bless God that you have brain
TO think and hands to work and feet to
walk with, for tin your constant activity,
o young man, is one Of your strongest de-
Tenses. Put your trust in God and do
your level best. That child had it right
when the horse ran away with the load
of wood and he sat upon it. When
asked If he was frightened he said: enc;
prayed to God and hung on like a
beaver
Again, profound respect for the Sab
bath will be to the young man power
full preservative against evil. God has
thrust into the toll and fatigue OF life
recreative day, when the soul is especially
TO be fed. 1t is no new-fangled notion
of wild Drained reformer but
an institution established at tho
beginning. God has made natural and
moral laws so harmonious that the body
as we'll as the soul demands this instit u
ton. Our bodies are seven-day clocks,
| that must be wound up as often as that,
or they will run down. Failure must come
sooner or later to the man who breaks the
Sabbath. Inspiration has called it the
Lords Day, and he who devotes il to the
world is guilty of robbery. God will not
| let the sin go UNPUBLISHED either In this.
world or the world to come.
| This Is the statement of man who had
broken this divine enactment: 81 was en-
gagged In manufacturing on the Lehigh
| river. On the Sabbath / used TO rest. but
never regarded God in it. One beautiful
Sabbath, wi, en- the noise was al hustled,
| and the day was all that lowell
ness could make IT, ] sat down on my
| piazza, and went to work inventing a
new shuttle. l neither stopped to eat
nor drink till the sun went down. BY that
time had the invention completed. The
next morning / exhibited it, boosted of
my days work, aud was applauded. The
| shuttle was tried and worked well, but
| that Sabbath days work cost me thirty
| thousand dollars. We branched out and
enlarged, and the curse OF Heaven was
upon me from that day onward"
| While the divine frown must rest upon
| him who tramples upon this statute, Gods
special favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulously observes it. This day,
! properly observed, win throw a hallowed
! influence over all the week. The song,
and sermon, and sanctuary will hold back
from presumptuous scenes. That young
man who begins the duties of life
with either secret or open disrespect
of the holy day, venture to prophesy,
| will meet with no prominent sue
cesses. Gods curse will fall upon his
ship, his store, his office, his studio, his
| body and his soul. The way of the wicked
| he turneth upside down. In one of the
old fables il was said that a wonderful
child was born In Bagdad, and a magician
could hear his footsteps six thousand
miles away. But can hear in the foot
| step of that young man on his way to the
house of worship this morning, step not
only OF lifetime OF usefulness, but the
coming step of eternal Joys Of heavens
| yet millions OF miles away.
| Again, noble ideal, and confident ex-
pectaton OF epproximatng to 1t, will in
| falliblv Advance. Tho artist completes in
his mind the reat thought that he wishes
to transfer to the canvas or the marble
before he tasrs up the crayon or the
chisel. The architect plans out the
entire structure before he or
| ders the workmen to begin, and, though
| there may for a long while seem to be
nothing but laundering and rndeness, he
has in his mind every Corinthian wreath
and Gothic arch and Byzantine capital
| The poet arranges the entire plot before he
| begins to chime the first canto of tingling
| ny thms. And yet, stranger to us, there
| are men who attempt to build their char
acter without knowing in the end whether
| It shall be rude traitors den or st.
Marks of Venice; men who begin to
write the intricate poem OF their lives
| without knowing whether il shall be a
Homer's "Odyssey'' or a rhymster's botch.
| Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out
| Of a thousand are living without any
| great life plot. Booted and spurred, and
plumed, and urging their swift courser in
| the hottest haste. I come out and ask:
"Halloo, man, whittier awayT His re.
Spouse Is: "Now here"
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many one, and taking the plane out of
the mans hand and laying down the
| yard stick say: "What, man, is all this
| about, so much stir and sweatY' The re-
| ply will stumble and break down between
teeth and lips.
Every days duty ought only to be the
following up of the main plan of exist
ence. Letmen be consistent. Ii they prefer
msdeeds TO correct courses of action, then
| let them draw out the design of knavery,
| and cruelty, and plumber. Let every days
| fal school and wrong-doing be added as
coloring to the picture. Let bloody deeds
| red stripe the canvas, and the clouds of a
wrathful God hang down heavily over the
| canvas, ready to break out In clamorous
| tempest. Let the waters be chafed, a
| froth -tangle, and green with immeasura-
| BILE depths. Then take torch of burning
pitch and scorch into the frame of the
picture the right name for il; namely !, the
sou rs suicide
| II one entering upon sinful directions
would only, in his mind or ON paper, draw
| ont In in awful reality this dreadful flu
ture, he would recoi from ID, and say:
"Am Dante. that by my own life
should write another Inferno" But If
you are res olved 10 live life such as God
and good men win approve, do not let it
be vague dream. an indefinite deter
| mination, but in your mind or upon paper
| sketch IL in all it's minutia. You can not
know the changes to which you may be
| subjected, but you may know what al
ways will be right and always will be
wrong Let gentleness, and charity, and
veracity, and faith stand In the heart of
the sketch. On some still brooks bank
make lamb and a lion lie down together.